Aaron Sorkin

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Funny or Die's iSteve Beat All the Other Steve Jobs Biopics to the Screen. Maybe Because It Was Shot in Five Days

Best of the Boob Tube

Antaeus Company double dips The Seagull, and more New Theater Reviews . . .

​Antaeus Company's double-cast production of Chekhov's The Seagull scored this week's Pick of the Week.​ Click here for all of this week's New Theater Reviews, or after the jump. Also, check this week's Stage feature on a mixed reaction to Hollywood's A-List (Clooney, Pitt, Bacon, Sheen) taking ... More >>

Moneyball Review

Reviews of A Widow of No Importance; The Vault: Unlocked; The Stories of Isaac Leib Peretz; and more . . .

Hector Cruz Salvador"The Vault: Unlocked"​"The gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is a sinister metamorphosis engineered by spoiled hipsters and well-heeled land grabbers in this whodunit parody by the Latino Theatre Company," writes Amy Lyons about The Vault: Unlocked, at Los Angeles Theatre ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Our New Responsible Carnivore

Flickr/kate.gardinerdinner for billionaires​ Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is good at picking up on trends. His latest? Butchery. Locavorism. Sustainable eating. According to Fortune and CNN, Zuckerberg has recently decided only to eat meat he kills himself. Which news he announced, ... More >>

Stage Raw: Aaron Sorkin's First Stage Play

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS Stage FEATURE on The Chinese Massacre and House of the Rising Son ​Maia MadisonAaron Sorkin's first stage play, Hidden in This Picture, is reviewed by Amy Nicholson; Neal Weaver was taken with the collection of theater-celeb-scribed gay-theme ... More >>

The Social Network Named Best Movie of 2010

The film critics' poll

The 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Poll

From best to worst, the results are in

The Social Network, Or Why I Quit Facebook

​ Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg has been named by TIME Magazine as the 2010 Man of the Year. Countless awards bodies, polls (including the Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll) and film critics groups (including the LA Film Critics Association, of which I am a member) have named The Social ... More >>

Hollywood Backs Harris as Cooley Pulls Away

Why ugly and grumpy Steve is beating smart and beautiful Kamala

The Social Network: Who Needs Friends?

David Fincher commented on Mark Zuckerberg's status. His latest, on Facebook's birth and the minds behind it, invites you to join him

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Best and Worst Fictional Presidential Speeches on Film TV

It’s almost hard to believe that we are, at long last, in the final stretches of the 2008 presidential campaign. No matter which way you are inclined to vote (though particularly so if you skew blue, where the primary race felt almost as long as all seven seasons of The West Wing), there have bee ... More >>

Q&A With The Realist's Paul Krassner at Chicago 10 Screening

"Communicate without compromise," says the man who coined "yippie"

Film Reviews: Semi-Pro, Summer Palace, A Walk to Beautiful

And other Feb. 29 releases

Rambo: Universal Soldier

Twenty years later, our one-man military machine's still going

Charlie Wilson’s War: Go, Mujahedeen, Go!

A collision of good intentions and unintended consequences

Lions for Lambs: Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest war drama

Double-Cross at the WGA

If you write for TV or film in Hollywood, your check might never be in the mail

Battle of the Network Stars

It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

It's Ugly Out There

Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

Working-Class Hero

Jimmy McGovern’s unvarnished TV

Life Not Quite Imitating Art

What the prez could learn from his West Wing addiction

Tempest From a Teapot

For MoveOn’s Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, politics begins and ends at home

In Love, Pissed

Playwright/comedian Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch

The Queens of Hollywood

Behind the Times’ new bylines

New York Times Names New Queen of Hollywood

Web Exclusive

The Robert Downey Jr. Celebrity Crime Blotter

Horsefeathers II

Hollywood ponders the profits of patriotism and war

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

All the President's Wonks

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing

On TV

Homicide anatomized, Sports Night's backstage dramedy